Remedial head-band.



0.. 0. D'IEUDONN'E.

REMEDIAL HEAD 'BAND. APPLIOATIO N'PILED OUT. 15, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19,1909.

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THE NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

BEMEDIAL HEAD-BAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 15, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Serial No. 457,819.

T 0 all to whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES C. DIEUDONNE citizen of the United States,residing at l/Vashington, in the District of Columbia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Remedial Head-Bands, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

My invention relates to remedial electric bands adapted to pass aroundthe head and to act upon the forehead and temples.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the band in position. Fig.2 is a view of the front portion of the band when in plane form. Fig. 3is a section on the line 8-3, Fig. 2.

in these views, A. represents a very thin plate, preferably ofmagnetized steel, long enough toreach from temple to temple across theforehead, and having near its ends dependent tab-like portions B uponthe inner face of which are fined, in electrical contact zinc plates ordisks C. The steel plate has a narrow vertical slot near each end andalso two like intermediate slots which may be equidistant from the endslots and each other, all these slots being above the zinc disks and inposition to receive a straight strip 1), of copper, slightly longer thanthe steel plate and threaded outward through one of the end slots D,inward through the next slot, and so on, so that the copper when inplace lies between the steel plate and the skin at each end and in themiddle of the plate. A preferably elastic band E is secured to one endof the copper strip and is of such length that it may pass around theback of the head to the opposite end of the copper strip where it passesthrough a slot D bends back upon itself and is attached to an ordinaryclamping slide E which permits adjustment of the length of the band. Theportions of the copper strip which would otherwise meet the broad facesof the steel plate are coated with shellac G, or other insulatingmaterial, but at the slots the two metals are in electrical contact.

If the device be placed upon the head as shown in Fig. 1, and if theband be given proper tension, the central portion of the 1 copper stripis pressed firmly against the forehead while the zinc disks are pressedagainst the temples, respectively. These parts being in direct contactwith the skin and electrically connected by the steel plate,

| circuit is completed through those portions of the head upon whichthey rest and a very slight, constant, resulting electrical current isproduced, and this current, perhaps aided by the pressure, gives reliefin certain forms of headache. The steel is usually protected from rustby coating it with nickel.

Obviously other suitable metal may be substituted for the copper andzinc, or the positions of the two metals may be reversed.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a band adapted to be passed horizontally aboutthe upper part of the head, of a copper plate carried by the band inposition to rest on the forehead, two Zinc plates also carried by theband in position to rest against the temples, respectively, andelectrical conductors connecting the three plates with each other.

2. The combination with a flexible steel plate adapted to extend aboutthe front part of the head from temple to temple, of a copper platesecured to the inner middle portion of the plate and electricallyconnected thereto, two zinc plates secured to end portions of the plate,respectively and electrically connected therewith, and a band arrangedto pass around the rear portion of the head and bind the copper and zincplate against the forehead and temples, respectively.

3. The combination with the slotted steel plate bearing the zinc platesupon the inner face of the plate near its ends, of the copper strippassing alternately inward and outward through the slots and insulatedfrom the plate at intermediate points, and the band connecting the endsof said strip and adapted to pass around the rear portion of the head.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES C. DIEUDONNE.

"Witnesses S. A. TERRY, RoY ALEXANDER.

